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Poll: Mike Castle, Beau Biden In Dead Heat For Senate Race
Eric Kleefeld | October 15, 2009, 4:53PM
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The new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll finds a dead heat in the 2010 Delaware Senate race -- a special election for Vice President Joe Biden's Senate -- between the likely Republican nominee, Rep. Mike Castle, and Joe Biden's son, the likely Dem nominee Beau Biden.
The numbers: Castle 46%, Biden the Younger 45%, within the ±4% margin of error. Castle has officially declared his candidacy, while Biden has said he is strongly considering it.
Other Democrats were also tested against Castle, and they did not do as well: Appointed Sen. Ted Kaufman trails by 51%-37%, former Lt. Gov. John Carney (who is running for Castle's House seat) is behind by 49%-41%, and New Castle County Executive Chris Coons trails by 51%-39%.
The poll also showed Carney leading two Republicans for the House race, though with less than 50% support: He's ahead of former state Sen. Charlie Copeland by 44%-21%, and leads state Rep. Greg Lavelle by 45%-18%.
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runfastandwin
October 15, 2009 6:30 PM
Castle is clearly too old. There is no way he wins this.
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midnight rambler
October 15, 2009 11:17 PM
Anyone have insight as to why this race is so close? I thought Delaware was pretty blue, its status as a credit card company refuge notwithstanding. I had also though that Biden's low polling earlier was a reaction to him "inheriting" Joe's seat, but maybe there's more?
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